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Warren is a fifth-grade science and math instructor at Austin Academy, a fine-arts charter school in the San Antonio Independent School District. Actually, she's a bit more than that: She is the school's change agent on climate change and the environment.

She has helped students form their own Roots & Shoots Environmental Club, which has taken on such projects as a community garden — now, in partnership with Bexar County Health Collaborative — and gotten the school to begin a recycling program. She also teaches her students, as part of their lessons, what good decisions they might undertake to ease the planet's dependence on fossil fuels.

But Warren also has been helping 350.org with San Antonio events. The organization is a national nonprofit whose goal is to develop a sense of urgency about climate change.

(Climate-change deniers: Please direct your complaints to the overwhelming majority of scientists and science organizations that have concluded that the threat of global warming is real).

The 350 in the organization's name refers to 350 parts per million, the upper limit of how much carbon dioxide should be in the earth's atmosphere. It's now at about 392, and that needs to come down.

This is where Warren is trying to play a humble role.

For 350.org, she is planning an event in San Antonio for Sept. 24. She calls it “Moving Planet: A day to move beyond fossil fuels.” The larger plan is for this to happen simultaneously in as many countries as possible. Precisely how this awareness raising will be accomplished is still in the planning stages.

But Warren initially noticed that her event was neatly bookended by two other environment-friendly events that weekend.

On Friday, Sept. 23, AIA San Antonio, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects, will host a talk by Peter Calthorpe, author of “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change.” This will occur at the Pearl Brewery Stables from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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And the city and the YMCA of Greater San Antonio had scheduled another event, Síclovía — closing a big street near downtown for a day (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) of bicycling, skateboarding, jogging, walking — for Sept. 25. That date has now been changed to Oct. 2. But it turns out that there are other environmentally conscious events elsewhere in September.

It's a no-brainer. Even if Síclovía no longer bookends Warren's event, the need to raise awareness on this issue is paramount. The committee should recommend approval, and the mayor and City Council should act quickly to approve Climate Change Awareness Month after that.

And then the rest of us, including our policymakers, should make this awareness the rule for more than just a month.